2026-06-06 · percent of tropical rainforest area
The Amazon is half of Earth's rainforest
Tropical moist forest stores carbon and water. The Amazon basin is the largest single block.
Planetary boundaries love waffle charts — one cell is a fixed sip of the whole resource. This grid divides tropical rainforest (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Amazon basin, Congo basin, and Southeast Asia + other — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 0.1 percent of tropical rainforest area (0.1% of tropical rainforest) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from FAO Global Forest Resources put Amazon basin at 49% of tropical rainforest and Southeast Asia + other at 33% — about 100 percent of tropical rainforest area in this edition's rounding.
FAO / RAISG regional rainforest shares, rounded.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-06-06-amazon-forest-share